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minimum realistic system for iChat AV

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atomiton

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Sep 23, 2004
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Hey there, I wanna v-chat with my fiancée in Japan... she doesn't "yet" have a mac... so it will be via AOL for now, but I was wondering, I have a Pmac G4 400Mhz Gigabit with 1GB of RAM. Will this run iChat AV?

Before I spend the $ to upgrade to Tiger and buy an iSight, I wanna know if it's worth it.

I will be getting her (us) a 12" iBook so her side "shouldn't" be a problem, right?

I"m not trying to do 3-way video... just 1 on 1 for now.

Has anyone does this? Will the PMac handle the H.264 iChat AV uses?

Thanx!
 
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7254278

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Apr 11, 2004
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I dont know much about the subject or what you should do,all I know is H.246 needs atleast a 1.2GHZ G4.
 
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kewpid

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I dont know much about the subject or what you should do,all I know is H.246 needs atleast a 1.2GHZ G4.
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Not really...

According to the iChat page, any G4 Mac will be able to handle a 1-to-1 video. Remember that h.264 is a scalable codec. Only HD h.264 video requires a powerful Mac.
 
ftaok

ftaok

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atomiton said:
Hey there, I wanna v-chat with my fiancée in Japan... she doesn't "yet" have a mac... so it will be via AOL for now, but I was wondering, I have a Pmac G4 400Mhz Gigabit with 1GB of RAM. Will this run iChat AV?

Before I spend the $ to upgrade to Tiger and buy an iSight, I wanna know if it's worth it.

I will be getting her (us) a 12" iBook so her side "shouldn't" be a problem, right?

I"m not trying to do 3-way video... just 1 on 1 for now.

Has anyone does this? Will the PMac handle the H.264 iChat AV uses?

Thanx!
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I have nothing to add, but I did read the other thread. Congrats on the engagement!
 
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atomiton

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Sep 23, 2004
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ftaok said:
I have nothing to add, but I did read the other thread. Congrats on the engagement!
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Thanks!! Now the planning starts! Co-Ordinating these things between two families from three continents will be difficult.

I really hope that I can get the iSight using decent quality video. We will see. I was hoping to see if anyone had actually used it with a G4.
 
wwooden

wwooden

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Jul 26, 2004
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I would stick with Panther if I were you. I found that with my old G4 PowerBook, the quality was much better with panther. Your computer should run that version of iChat just fine for a video conference.
 
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atomiton

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Sep 23, 2004
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wwooden said:
I would stick with Panther if I were you. I found that with my old G4 PowerBook, the quality was much better with panther. Your computer should run that version of iChat just fine for a video conference.
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And no problem interfacing with the Tiger iChat AV Version? What's frame rate like, too?
 
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